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by dsizzle 5y ago
I somehow expected something surprising in the article but there really wasn’t (the average temperature is in fact significantly lower in North Pole). The headline is at least not clickbait.
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Also kind of fun: Detroit is due north of Canada
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Are they less representative than other common sources of subjects, like undergrads?
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Maybe this is more common than I realize, but I was surprised they used Mechanical Turk to find subjects.
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by dsizzle 5y ago
They do seem similar in that they attempt to address shortcomings in utilitarianism but Rawls seem to reject the utilitarian framework in favor of justice whereas this is more of a tweak.
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Reminded of this pop-sci book about Luca Turin, an olfactory scientist https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Scent-Story-Perfume-Obsession...
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by dsizzle 5y ago
I think it'd be useful to have the same graphs for some non-cat sounds, like the human vowels that you mention. It's not clear if there's something particularly interesting about cats or not here.
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Counterpoint: citations are a valuable currency in science. Arguably one of the best ways to earn citations is to do good work and write clear papers. Not saying incentives are perfectly aligned -- many citations are superficial ("this
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Aren’t all tax rates set politically?
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Anyone have an idea why on why a variant would require more doses to protect? Is the implication also that you'd be better protected from the alpha variant too, just that you enter diminishing returns for the third shot there whereas f
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Vaccine neutralises Omicron with three shots(reuters.com)
2 points by dsizzle 5y ago|3 comments
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by dsizzle 5y ago
>If you have some programming experience, this is for you. >If you have no programming experience, this is for you. I can't tell if there's a typo here, or if the "Who is this for?" section could be shortened to si
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Yeah, and these features are easier to track than the interior of the house. As an aside, I've often been surprised how little some of these features get valued. For instance, I've looked at neighborhoods where one side of the str
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by dsizzle 5y ago
This quote from your link contradicts a "one-and-done" whole neighborhood analysis: >There would be an annual value assessment for each plot of land It seems the OP has better examples of how it would be done than that link.
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Isn't this already done as part of property insurance?
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by dsizzle 5y ago
FWIW, I just looked up my own property tax records and there's no breakdown, so not sure how common that is. That said, it is done for property insurance, so I think your point that it's already done stands.
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Would there be a free reader? What is their business model?
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Corollary: Naval never admits failure?
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Reasons and Persons: Watch theories eat themselves(dynomight.net)
2 points by dsizzle 5y ago|0 comments
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by dsizzle 5y ago
This happened in post-war US too https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/11/384988128/the-... ) https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/in-the-balance/2017/...
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by dsizzle 5y ago
I'm curious why you pay for two music subscriptions. What's the process for deciding which one to listen to?
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Yeah, I would agree if it's just for adding search haha. I'm speculating they might have larger ambitions there.
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by dsizzle 5y ago
That's a really short window to salvage your data.
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by dsizzle 5y ago
A lot of people use Twitter DMs and complain about that experience having room to improve (e.g. being able to search DMs). Maybe some of these acqui-hires (and that's what they seem to be) will be toward improving DMs?
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Haha. Actually, now that I think about it, I guess the TOS doesn't apply if you don't use the service!
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Yeah, ok that must be the distinction. However, I see that the TOS says you may not "perform or publish" benchmarks. Seems this still violates the "or publish" part, even if Fastly avoided doing the performing. What woul
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by dsizzle 5y ago
> To clarify, Fastly did not perform any benchmarks on Cloudflare's network. We ran our own benchmark… Am I the only having cognitive dissonance here? I was confused how they complained about not being able to perform benchmarks but
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Yes. I think the device used is a bit more sophisticated than simply obtaining the cycle number where it crosses the threshold. There's a variation of PCR called quantitative PCR (qPCR) that measures a fluorescence signal more or less
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by dsizzle 5y ago
> The numbers in my house were effectively off the charts Did you get a measurement done, and if so where do you go to get that?
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by dsizzle 5y ago
Interesting. What are the bandwidth considerations for this? I had the impression that many ISPs make self-hosting impractical on normal household plans, but then I've never looked into it seriously.

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